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Hi there! Frequent follower of AskScience, one of my favorite subs. Feel free to delete this if it's the wrong place to post (maybe I should just send a message?) but I've only recently discovered the FAQ sidebar (after finding the same in the AskHistorians sub) and was wondering about the dead-end links of many of the topics... is that just because nobody has compiled and/or there haven't been FAQ in certain topics? Or did they once exist and the links were not updated? Just wondering! Again apologies if this is the wrong place for this post. Any which way, keep up the great work :)

I don't want to give too much an 'inside baseball' answer, but there's been some discussion among the panelists and mods about what the purpose of the FAQ's is. Is it there to answer common questions? Is it there to compile "best-of" answers? Are questions there off limits? Should people answering questions post a link to or copy-paste answers from the FAQ?

To be honest, I'm not sure if there was ever a satisfying answer to those fundamental questions, but in the end the FAQ kind of fell to the wayside in favor of just answering questions.